Category: Daily Mailer

The Australian Conservation Foundation has long enjoyed the contributions to their work of volunteer Maelor Himbury. I’ve long enjoyed one of his contributions – the daily compilation from the nation’s media of articles featuring the environment, conservation and climate change. Each weekday I receive Maelor’s list of articles, I scan the list and make an editorial comment on one that takes my fancy. Yes, I know, quite self-indulgent but it makes me look carefully through the daily offerings. I then send it on to the 40 or 50 people who have indicated that they wish to receive it. In turn, a number of them then pass the list on to people that they know. I’m never sure that Maelor knows just how many people appreciate his work – but I certainly do.

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Continuous growth on a finite planet is not just oxymoronic, it is moronic. Instead of GDP as our measure of success, the move to a GPI, a Genuine Progress Indicator, might help us see how we are tracking.https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/the-endless-growth-paradigm-,13039

The average temperature in July was over 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit greater than the 20th century average. There are fires in all manner of places due to these higher temperatures. When, oh when, will the captains of industry, supported by their captive politicians, decide the response is cheaper than the money they make through business as usual?https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/21/wildfires-july-hottest-month-ever-fires-rage-across-globe/2070418001/

This could well be what free-market capitalism is all about. Sovereignty, schmovereignty, buy an island and the population gets thrown in. The bromance between the Pentecostal PM and the Orange Grabber could see an offer being made to buy Australia. Oh wait, there’s probably no need to, he has us in so many ways alreadyhttps://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/money-can-buy-anything-so-why-not-greenland-20190820-p52ivt.html

We’re the 14th largest emitter of CO2 into the atmosphere and the 3rd largest exporter of solid CO2 equivalents to countries where they’ll release it into the atmosphere. We’re not the global citizen we once were, on this front as on others.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/19/australia-is-third-largest-exporter-of-fossil-fuels-behind-russia-and-saudi-arabia

Mr What’s-his-name, as Acting PM, has dropped a clanger in claiming the Pacific nations will be ok as their lands submerge because ‘they can pick our fruit’. We did know that too many of that lot were light on for grey matter but wouldn’t you try to hide it?https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-17/fiji-slams-australia-deputy-pm-for-climate-forum-fruit-comment/11424444

How come the prospect of Adani’s Carmichael Mine is still an alive thing? On every relevant criterion, it is dumb, dumb, dumb!https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-16/adani-snubbed-by-rail-company-as-aurizon-faces-pressure/11418900